Day 1: Introductions and Setting up Your Computer

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• Introducing the course
  1. Course goals, syllabus
  2. Familiarizing yourself with the course website
     1. Click the 'join' link at the very top to join this wiki now if you like
• Getting to know one another
  1. Add your name/email and areas of study to this google document (link now removed for privacy)
  2. What areas and levels of education are you interested in?
  3. Have you taught courses? online?
  4. Do you have your own laptop?
  5. Have you used: blogs, twitter, skype, blackboard, moodle, etc.
• Setting up our computers
  1. (we'll do this on day 3) Installing the Firefox web browser
     1. Either today or later, we'll install the Zotero bibliography manager add-on, as well and join the zotero detools group
  2. Checking flash, java
  3. Sign up for a Google account, add the course calendar to your google calendar if you like
• Sign up on friendfeed and join the detools group
• Discussing our Philosophy of teaching and technology
• Discussing Potential misconceptions about learning and technology